GENDER PAY GAP 2010 Gender Pay Gap

When the Equality Act 2010 came into force, it contained a voluntary requirement under Section 78, for employers to release gender pay gap information. We have calculated the gender pay gap for HMRC by expressing women’s pay as a percentage of men's pay. This shows the overall gender pay gap for HMRC is 22% in favour of men.

In common with most equal pay reviews, we have adopted a practical approach to calculating pay gap by expressing gender pay as a percentage of the comparator's pay.

The table below shows the median salary of women, calculated as a percentage of men's median salary. The percentage of the gender pay gap is 78%, which means women are paid 78% of the salary received by men.

Table 1: Overall Gender Pay Gap

| Grades | Median Salary Women | Median Salary Men | Index (Men = 100%) | |--------|---------------------|-------------------|-------------------| | AA - G6 | 19,474 | 24,821 | 78% |

This straight comparison of women's and men's pay in HMRC does not provide a meaningful comparison however, as it does not take into account the HMRC grade structure, the different ratio of women and men within that grade structure and the different national and London pay scales for each grade. When these elements are taken into account and like for like comparisons are made, then the gender pay gap, where it exists, is considerably less than 22%.

Gender pay gap by grade and pay scale area

We have produced two tables to make a more meaningful gender pay comparison by comparing the median gender pay by grade and London and national pay areas. As with the overall gender pay gap, we have shown women's pay as a percentage of men's pay. Where the percentage rate for women is less than 100%, men have the lead while over 100% means that women have the lead. To analyse the results, we have used the Equality and Human Rights Commission's definition of a significant pay gap, which is a gap of 5% or more, or patterns of differences of 3% to decide where further investigation and explanation is required.

Table 2 compares women's and men's London median pay. It shows there are no gender pay differences from Administrative Assistant to Senior Officer grades. Only at Grade 7 and Grade 6 are there differences. In both cases length of service is probably a factor because when this is taken into account, there are no significant differences between women's and men's salaries – see table 4.

Table 2: Median London salaries by grade and gender

| Grade | Women | Men | Index (Men = 100%) | |-----------|-------|-------|-------------------| | Admin Assistant | 19,965 | 19,965 | 100% | | Assistant Officer | 23,892 | 23,892 | 100% | | Officer | 30,331 | 30,331 | 100% | | Higher Officer | 37,105 | 37,105 | 100% | | Senior Officer | 42,856 | 42,856 | 100% | | Grade 7 | 54,921 | 56,407 | 97% | | Grade 6 | 70,189 | 74,209 | 95% | Table 3 compares women’s and men’s national median pay. It shows there are small gender pay differences at Assistant Officer and Higher Officer grade. As with London there are also differences at Grade 7 and Grade 6 but once again length of service is probably a factor, because when this is taken into account there are no significant differences between women’s and men’s salaries – see table 4.

Table 3: Median National salaries by grade and gender

| Grade | Women | Men | Index (Men = 100%) | |----------------|-------|------|-------------------| | Admin Assistant| 15,727| 15,727| 100% | | Assistant Officer| 19,474| 18,851| 103% | | Officer | 26,227| 26,227| 100% | | Higher Officer | 32,303| 32,622| 99% | | Senior Officer | 39,643| 39,643| 100% | | Grade 7 | 49,154| 51,426| 96% | | Grade 6 | 63,220| 66,657| 95% |

Length of service

Table 4 below shows the median women’s salaries as a percentage of men’s salaries after length of service at Grade 7 and Grade 6 has been taken into account. They show that once length of service has been taken into account women’s and men’s salaries do not differ significantly.

Table 4: Median salary comparison by length of service

| Years of Service | G7 London | G7 National | G6 London | G6 National | G7 London | G7 National | G6 London | G6 National | |------------------|-----------|-------------|-----------|-------------|-----------|-------------|-----------|-------------| | 0 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 96% | 55 | 146 | 48 | 40 | | 1 | 100% | 100% | 99% | 102% | 147 | 218 | 61 | 89 | | 2 | 100% | 100% | 99% | 104% | 91 | 179 | 49 | 70 | | 3 | 101% | 99% | 97% | 99% | 63 | 138 | 30 | 57 | | 4 | 100% | 99% | 98% | 99% | 83 | 144 | 48 | 47 | | 5 | 100% | 100% | 101% | 100% | 54 | 111 | 28 | 37 | | 6 | 100% | 100% | 101% | 100% | 54 | 85 | 41 | 56 | | 7 | 100% | 102% | 99% | 100% | 62 | 96 | 37 | 51 | | 8 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 33 | 84 | 46 | 42 | | 9 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 26 | 47 | 29 | 30 | | 10 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 141 | 376 | 109 | 143 |